April 2, 2009

Greetings, from Industry Blender,

We’d like to thank all of you who receive our newsletter every month, and invite you to join the conversation that’s happening on our site. We’re creating the best, most interactive food community on the web, and we want to hear from you! Go here to register you or your business,

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Our feature article helps you understand how our site works, and you can visit our blog to learn more about the content on our site. If you’d like to contribute your expertise and get noticed, email us and we’ll help get you on your way.

FEATURE ARTICLE: FOOD ISN’T JUST SOMETHING WE EAT, ANYMORE

Food’s just something we cannot stop talking about. We want to experience it with all our senses, swoon over it with our friends, follow it around with our cameras, write it love notes, canonize its artists, and build great houses of worship in its honour….(read the full article here).

LOCAL SPOTLIGHT: SMALL BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY

We’ve begun a new feature at Industry Blender called Local Spotlight, where each week we ask local business owners to provide insight into their operations, and reveal some of their recipes for success. They’re all experts at what they do, so you’re likely to learn something valuable from the advice and information they have to share….(read the full article here).

BUSINESS: MARKET SMARTER, NOT HARDER

It’s tempting for business owners to hibernate during, this, the winter of our economic discontent. Everyone wants to freeze their marketing budgets, and hunker down until warmer economic climates arrive…(read the full article here).

GLOBAL: CONSUMERS PUSH FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY IN FOOD

It’s remarkable how utterly undiscerning many of us are about what goes into our mouths. Fortunately, we’ve begun to ask about those nine-syllable additives in our breakfast cereal, and learned the truth about misleading, “hydrogenated,” “natural” and “enriched” labels…(read the full article here).

MARKETING TIP OF THE WEEK: PROMOTE YOUR EXPERTISE

The internet has afforded people the luxury of having a voice, and what better way to use that platform than to share your expertise with the world for the benefit of your readers and business…(read the full article here).